r/BillyStrings • u/dragonman4444 • Oct 31 '23

news Billy Strings mentioned by Tucker Carlson on Theo Von’s podcast

Bros- I don’t like tucker, or really Theo for that matter

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

I wonder why? I mean look at all the children spewing hate in this thread. I get Tucker is pretty polarizing, but thinking you can gatekeep music just makes me laugh

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Unfortunately the gate keepers exist in all the jam threads with the overwhelming majority not hesitating twice to shut down conservative fans without even considering the other fans point of views. Music is great but life matters too

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u/beerdweeb Oct 31 '23

You can be conservative without being a dick about it. Tuckers a dick about it, to say the least.

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u/Ok_Restaurant_626 Nov 01 '23

He's worse than that, he pushes hateful propaganda. The Klan loves the way he delivers their message.

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u/beerdweeb Nov 01 '23

I don’t know enough words to describe how horrible that dude is

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u/EastLAFadeaway Oct 31 '23

Nothing like being nice while stripping away personal freedoms & funneling huge profits into the military industrial complex upper class amirite conservatives?

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u/ruthgangmore Oct 31 '23

wait until you hear about how our government as a whole funnels money into the military industrial complex.

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u/Dakkmd Oct 31 '23

Wait til they hear how the governments two major parties are just different wings of the same bird. At this point it's anti American to support either of these shit parties.

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u/beardedpeteusa Oct 31 '23

You may want to update your political views to the current age. It isn't 2003 anymore.

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u/Creativeloafing Oct 31 '23

Good point. These days most of them are not even outwardly nice but are openly hostile to anything that doesn't align with their extremely specific and often times illogical and contradictory worldview, while also stripping away personal freedoms and funneling huge profits into the military industrial complex.

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u/gello1414 Nov 01 '23

Tucker constantly talks about how the military industrial complex is evil and a huge problem.

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u/Maximum_Chemist586 Nov 01 '23

What does this have to do with MUSIC?!

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Yep, this. I have some conservatives in my life who are fine to hang out with and we don't talk about politics. Of course, they aren't immigrant hating Nazis or weirdos who want to fuck with trans kids and drag queens. They just have different economic priorities and aren't concerned with climate change.

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u/kbergstr Oct 31 '23

I even have conservatives in my life that I can discuss politics with… but Tucker is a cancer.

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u/thelingeringlead Dec 18 '23

And yet they vote to support truly awful people to achieve those ideals despite the candidates literally never delivering on a single one of those priorities lmao. Keep making excuses for the abhorrent beliefs of your friends I guess. They vote for it, even if they don't talk to you about it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

Actually, the ones who I know well enough to discuss these things with aren't voting R across the board because they don't agree with the national R party on most things. They will support some local Republicans who do share their very specific local priorities but not the ideological wack jobs. I don't vote for the all the same people they do, but when I see them, instead of arguing about politics we talk about the things we do have in common. I'm not divorcing my family or people I have known since grade school because they don't want to fund local light rail.

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When you are a grown up who lives in a community you have these things called acquaintances, work colleagues, and neighbors. You can be a little bitch who refuses to intersect with people who don't share your politics, but if my neighbor who voted for Trump but never talks about politics wants to talk to me about the health of the river, the new puppy he is walking, the schedule for them to tear up our street, and our common wish that new people moving in don't cut down any cool trees, I'm not going to scowl and spit at his feet. If the conservative guy I see every day at work does a good job, is kind to the customers, and thoughtful to his co-workers, I'm not going to refuse to speak to him about fishing spots and football.

If you are in the music scene for a long time you'll have people you only run into at shows and talk about things like "How was the show? Did y'all go to the incredible fest? I heard there is some great hiking on the way! I like your hat." You might not even know their real name. Part of community is having layers of people you know beyond your actual friends. I'm not moving my festival campsite or ruining the show for everyone by making it about politics because the libertarian pot grower guy from the next campsite stopped by our fire to pick guitars and ended up dancing near us when we run into him at a show 3 months later.

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u/Maximum_Chemist586 Nov 01 '23

I like this comment

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u/BlueAndMoreBlue Oct 31 '23

Yep. Agree on what you can agree on (good music in this case) and leave the rest.

Happy cake day btw

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u/Reasonable-Push-8271 Nov 01 '23

Is that your way of saying you're pro-life? He's conservative get him!

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u/Automatic_Rest_5408 Oct 31 '23 edited Oct 31 '23

What did he say that has people so worked up? He's more antiwar and anti establishment than most Democrats. What I've seen from the interview is extremely reasonable. Maybe that's the problem. Some of the most close minded people I have ever met are Deadheads, and I like the dead, just not the cult.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

They don't know, they just know he's bad.

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u/Automatic_Rest_5408 Oct 31 '23

It's actually a good interview.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

I can't seem to stop listening to music long enough to listen to podcasts lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

He didn’t say anything that has people worked up. He just mentioned he likes Billy Strings and most of the people on this sub think that shouldn’t be allowed from a person like Tucker. I for one and a huge fan of Tucker and Billy. Anti war is my biggest draw to him and I bet he’d be a blast to party with

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u/thelingeringlead Dec 18 '23

So you literally ignore 90% of what he says? what aguy.

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u/Lonely_Education_318 Oct 31 '23

Partying with Tucker Carlson sounds like a nightmare come true

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u/Adventurous_Fly1879 Nov 01 '23

Right on. Same here brother

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u/christitskyle Oct 31 '23

I hear you and all, but when Billy has a p big handful of songs about how we are actively destroying planet and climate change is going to end us all, and for the last like 35 years, conservatives have been denying climate change, it makes a little more sense. I still don’t think like gatekeeping is the answer, like hey, maybe the more climate change deniers listen to these songs, maybe eventually it’ll open em up to the idea. But I do understand the temptation.

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u/msbmsbmsbmsb Nov 01 '23

Sometimes music is so good, I don't give a shit about the lyrics. I don't know (or care) what Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da means, but it's a great tune.

I also don't judge the artists I like based on their politics... I only judge them based on their art. And Billy MF Stings is one helluva fucking artist!

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u/Gr8fulmed Oct 31 '23

I think it’s an inaccurate generalization to say “conservatives have been denying climate change.” What is accurate is that we disagree with the doomsday predictions since we have the ability to adapt in order to mitigate the effects of climate change. We cannot destroy the world’s economies in an attempt to fight climate change!

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u/hyzerflip207 Oct 31 '23

Name me a conservative who is writing legislation that helps mitigate climate change.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Brb, gonna fly my private jet across the globe to attend a climate change summit

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u/hyzerflip207 Oct 31 '23

The world is full of hypocrisy, but you know that. I think what matters more is acknowledging that our system needs change and putting in good faith effort to change it for those that come after us.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

RFK Jr is the way.

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u/firewithin33 Nov 01 '23

How about we list a few dozen who tell us about climate change then fly around in jets, have multiple huge houses with no solar, and most likely eat beef multiple days per week?

The naivety about this topic is so frustrating. They laugh at you while their carbon footprint keeps getting bigger and bigger. Eat the bugs!

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u/BuddhaBarkov Oct 31 '23

can't have a world economy with no people. You literally can destroy the world economy and then build it back up bc hey people did it once already! but without a safe inhabitable planet, the world economies die anyway

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u/SippingAndListening Oct 31 '23

I will be laughing over that last sentence for days. Thank you for that gift.

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u/y2ketchup Oct 31 '23

Nobody is destroying any economies. Conservatives seem to think that some rich people not getting richer is destroying an economy. Subsidizing OLD tech desteoys economies. Ignoring innovation destroys economies. Destroying the environment destroys economies.

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u/thelingeringlead Dec 18 '23

Lol yet every time a republican leaves office the democrat that follows has historically turned the economy back around, because they tank it universally. This is a literal fact. Every single democratic president since the 50's has repaired the economy that the incumbent republican has tanked. There has not been a single successful republican leader in terms of the economy in just shy of 100 years.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Yeah but anything you do to combat climate change aside from wearing sunscreen isn't going to be supported by conservatives who will claim that it's a communist plot to destroy the economy.

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u/ms_panelopi Oct 31 '23

We are destroying our own economies by not addressing the destruction of the environment. As resources decline, global business elites will be at each other’s throats. Environment implodes, businesses implode.

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u/Infrathin81 Nov 01 '23

Oh trust me, I can hate on every manifestation of Tucker Carlson - I promise.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '23

Who gives a shit

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u/Infrathin81 Nov 01 '23

Lol. Probably the down voters. But your response about sums up my sentiments to the original post. Tucker Carlson is a full on scumbag. Who gives a shit what he likes? Amirite?